Following Michaels’ performance, the usually cantankerous Cowell gushed,

“Actually, he’d be good. He’s funny. He’s got experience. He’d be a good choice – and you saw the audience reaction to him. They love him.”

Michaels himself seems more than happy to take up the challenge—provided his physical recovery (the singer has been hospitalized multiple times this year, most recently for a “warning stroke”) goes as planned: